Quote Originally Posted by Jack Lambert View Post
I am going to disagree a little. Post dramatic stress is real. Every veteran has it to a certain degree. That's the only one you don't need medical records for. Any other injury you are going to have to have medical records sent to your VA hospital. I will say this as Veterans get older a lot of the those injures turn to arthritis. I use to never use the VA. I thought I have had a good life and wasn't going to take VA resources away from another vet but my attitude is starting to change reading what is being done with VA resources. I broke my right hand while on active duty Marine Corps. I have four screws. It is starting to really hurt all the time. I am pretty sure it is arthritis setting in. I now have arthritis for serving for serving my country and I am going to claim it. It will probably be 30% disability but like my fellow Marine Buddies say, "I earned It". It is only going to get worse and I need to get it started. I can increase the % as the years go by.
Good post and I agree. I'm also a Veteran and completed 2 tours in Iraq in the early 2000's... alot of those injuries sustained then and even doing my job are re-surfacing as I get older, luckily I did have it all in my records and the VA does compensate me. But viverlibre isn't wrong, there are people who lie about injuries alot. Some of them fool the VA, others have been caught, especially recently.